BOSTON — Perhaps it didn't have much, if any, effect on the final score, but there was no question that there was some questionable calls made in the Bruins' 3-1 Game 7 loss to the Canadiens on Wednesday night.

There were 10 minor penalties (six on the Bruins) assessed in the game, a far higher number than one might expect for a deciding game of a series, when officials often let more go. Fans and players often point to Game 7 of the 2011 Eastern Conference finals, in which there were no penalties called, as one of the best pure hockey games they've seen.

Yet on Wednesday, there was little stopping referees Dave Jackson and Dan O'Rourke from blowing their whistles multiple times. Jackson and O'Rourke were also the referees for Game 2 of the second-round series, the game in which Claude Julien said the Bruins had to play through "a lot of crap."

The most bizarre of the 10 penalties — which included matching holding minors on Zdeno Chara and Max Pacioretty in the first period — was the unsportsmanlike conduct call against Brad Marchand in the second period for giving Habs goalie Carey Price a snow shower. This was a penalty that was very rarely called during the regular season, although it was whistled on Colorado's Gabriel Landeskog late during Game 5 of the Avalanche's first-round series with the Wild.

Marchand was also sent off for goaltender interference against Price after he had been tripped by Andrei Markov and fell into Price.

“I had no idea they were even calling that [snow shower],” Marchand said. “Definitely frustrating. Even the first one, getting cross-checked in the head and taking out Carey. It’s tough, but you’ve got to play through it and the guys did a great job of killing it off. We got back to work.”

Other calls that were surprising given the importance of the game were holding the stick on David Krejci at the end of the second period and holding on Chara in the first.

Some strong penalty-killing by the Bruins allowed them to stay in the game, although the Habs finally took advantage with 2:53 left in the game off Johnny Boychuk's well-deserved interference penalty. But the Bruins would always prefer to play mostly 5-on-5, and were shaking their head quite a bit Wednesday at some calls that didn't seem befitting of a Game 7.